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Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.
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Hello, this is Leonard Richardson. Lucas Carlson and I are writing the Ruby Cookbook for O'Reilly. I've put up this page to solicit and coordinate community contributions, and to make the official outline publicly available. Our goal is to make this book a better reference than O'Reilly's Perl and Python Cookbooks.

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Great for all of us the "pragmatic programmers" put their excellent book online!
Want to test the code examples from the book while reading on-line?
"Programming Ruby" INTERACTIVE is the *complete* online book PLUS a "Try it"-button above every code-excerpt which spawns the online interpreter

Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.
Try out Ruby code in the prompt above.